Checking out what's in the news

Published 6:00 pm, Sunday, December 14, 2008

The past couple of weeks have been terrific if you're a reporter.

However, if you're a "regular Joe" all you can say is, "What in the world is going on?"

The governor of Illinois is arrested, Texas is shut out of the BCS Championship Game and some nut throws a shoe at President Bush.Rod Blagojevich was arrested last week for trying to sell or trade the senate seat of President-elect Obama. It is within the governor's power as the governor to select the person to fill the unexpired term of the office of U.S. senator. Blagojevich believes that the open seat has value SEmD not to the citizens of Illinois, but to him personally.

It is said that he wanted compensation in the form of fund-raising dollars or a position on a board of directors for his wife with fees in the hundred thousand dollar range.

What makes this crazy is that he is the governor of a state that has over the years seen its fair share of politicians go to jail.

Even one of the FBI agents who arrested the governor made the statement about Illinois, "If it isn't the most corrupt state in the United States, it's certainly one hell of a competitor."

Surely Blagojevich knew this about his state and yet he still thought he was above the law.

In mentioning the law, I can't help but think that a crime has been committed against the Texas Longhorns.

They beat both the University of Oklahoma and Missouri, which played each other for the Big 12 championship. How can a system rank OU ahead of Texas, which beat OU on a neutral field, and give the Sooners a ticket to play in the BCS Championship Game? How?

I don't know, but sounds like we need to get the FBI to put wire taps on the phones at BCS headquarters.

Lastly, what's up with the media in Baghdad?

It may be me, but I thought each person sent to a press conference was supposed to report the news, not make it. It's known throughout the world that in Iraqi culture throwing shoes at someone is a way of showing contempt. I have to ask two things: what took so long for this to happen, and how did he get off two shots before he was given the bum's rush by the Secret Service?